Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.9 goals

[Wendell <w@grabhive.com>]

Mike,

If bitcoinj will be ready and you will help us, we are willing to implement it right away in Hive as well. We will also keep BitcoinKit.framework updated with the new bitcoind and bitcoinj implementations.

BitPay taking the lead here would be tremendous. Hopefully cool sites like Bitcoin Store will also be game to hit the ground running. I'll ask them.

-wendell

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On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:

> Pieter, Matt and I also agreed that for maximum impact we should really try to ship payment protocol support in at least two clients simultaneously and ideally with a big merchant signed up too - to send a powerful message that we really mean it. Someone volunteered last week to do it for bitcoinj and if he doesn't pull through, I have some old code from EOY 2012 that I could update to the latest spec and ship at least some basic support. I'd hope that we can get Bitcoin Wallet or MultiBit updates out once bcj has support pretty fast.
> 
> Also, Jeff said that BitPay want to be a leader in support for the protocol. So let's try and co-ordinate release dates so we can make a bit of a splash and grab the ecosystems attention.